17th Century Print Pack

This Single Typeface pack contains a family
of two fonts: 17C Print and 17C
Italic

Download: £35
PC (OT only) |
Mac (OT & ATT)

Typefaces are provided as immediate electronic downloads; but you can also choose to:

Include a copy of all of your font purchases on USB flashdrive (choose once at any stage of your order)

Important Note: The full character set can be accessed in any Windows or Macintosh application, but extra functionality is available with OpenType/AAT enabled applications. See advanced type for
full details.

Historical note:

The advent of the printing press saw the early type designers, typified
by Guttenberg and Caxton, striving to reproduce the contemporaneous written
styles, which, in the early fifteenth century were based on various forms
of text hand. The Humanists of the Italian Renaissance wanted a ‘new’ writing
style and they found inspiration in the the old tenth century Carolingian
hand, through its clean and elegant form. In deference to its roots it
was known as Littera Antiqua, and, coupled both with a cursive, forward
slanted variant known as Italic, and Roman square capitals, it became
the de facto style across Europe, by the beginning of the sixteenth century
(although notably not in the Germanic countries where text hand remained
the standard). Inevitably, the printers embraced this new writing style
as the standard and most legible typeface. Such was its success, that
there really is very little difference between this and the ‘roman’ typestyles
of today

The 17C Print OT fonts were taken from a book published in 1686; they
were designed to incorporate not only the imperfections but also the
art of seventeenth century printing, including many glyph variants
based on optical size, ligature, alphabet and typestyle.